Follow up to posting, Coast Guard R. Admiral Gives BP 48 Hours to Identify Leak Containment Capacity, this new letter inclusive of graphs, from BP responding to the Admiral’s directive that “sets out the plans for rebuilding additional capacity and redundancy for the containment of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill…” See also this… Continue Reading
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Government Sends BP A Message: Maximizing Discharge Recovery From the Source
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this letter to: Doug Suttles, Chief Operating Officer, Exploration & Production, BP America Inc. From: James A. Watson, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Federal On-Scene Coordinator: “The discharge of oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is unprecedented in American history. This crisis has… Continue Reading
Interior Issues New Directive to Oil and Gas Drilling Operators on Outer Continental Shelf
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, news from MarineLog: “The Department of the Interior today issued a directive to oil and gas lessees and operators on the Outer Continental Shelf. It implements stronger safety requirements that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recommended in a 30-day safety report to the President,… Continue Reading
WSJ: Model Suggests Slick Could Zoom Up East Coast
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release, via WSJ.com: “New supercomputer studies suggest it is “very likely” ocean currents will carry oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico around the tip of Florida and thousands of miles up the U.S. East Coast this summer, researchers… Continue Reading
NASA Images Show Oil's Invasion Along Louisiana Coast
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “These images, acquired on May 24, 2010 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft, show the encroachment of oil from the former Deepwater Horizon rig into Louisiana’s wildlife habitats. The source of the spill is located off the… Continue Reading
Rep. Markey: Markey: Flow Rate Report Shines Light on BPs Financial Liability, True Size of Spill
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill this news release: “Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today continued to raise questions about BPs potential motivations to low-ball the flow rate and size of the spill, and released new documents showing BP knew the spill could have been much bigger than they claimed. The… Continue Reading
Flow Rate Group Provides Preliminary Best Estimate Of Oil Flowing from BP Oil Well
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, from the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center – Flow Rate Group Provides Preliminary Best Estimate Of Oil Flowing from BP Oil Well WSJ.com: Spill Tops Valdez Disaster – BP Pauses, Then Resumes Pumping ‘Mud’ Into Broken Well; Regulator Resigns Continue Reading
NYT: BP Kept Using Toxic Chemical in Gulf After EPA Deadline
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, see these updates via the New York Times: “More than a month has passed since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up, spewing immeasurable quantities of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and frustrating all efforts to contain it. The billowing plume of undersea oil… Continue Reading
EPA Posts Underwater Dispersant Monitoring Data/Under stringent plan
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last night began posting results from the ongoing monitoring of BPs use of underwater dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico at http://www.epa.gov/bpspill. EPA received this data from BP last night and posted it within hours. Dispersants are… Continue Reading
Just How Much Oil Is Spilling into Gulf of Mexico? Perhaps 10 Times Estimated by Coast Guard
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill: “The volume of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig may be at least 10 times higher than previously estimated, NPR has learned. The U.S. Coast Guard has estimated that oil was gushing from a broken pipe on the… Continue Reading
Center for Biological Diversity – Gulf Disaster Website Updated Daily
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill: “This Web site is updated daily check back for the most up-to-date information on the following: How big is the spill? How fast is it spreading? What species are threatened? Who is responsible? What if a spill occurs in the Arctic? Are oil spills… Continue Reading
One third of food goes to waste globally – insight into critical change
National Geographic – “Across cultures, food waste goes against the moral grain. After all, nearly 800 million people worldwide suffer from hunger. But according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we squander enough food—globally, 2.9 trillion pounds a year—to feed every one of them more than twice over. Where’s all that… Continue Reading
